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sim⋅u⋅la⋅crum

  [sim-yuh-ley-kruhm]
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–noun, plural -cra  [-kruh] .
1. a slight, unreal, or superficial likeness or semblance.
2. an effigy, image, or representation: a simulacrum of Aphrodite.
Origin:
1590–1600; < L simulācrum likeness, image, equiv. to simulā(re) to simulate + -crum instrumental suffix
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sim·u·la·crum   (sĭm'yə-lā'krəm, -lāk'rəm)   
n.   pl. sim·u·la·cra (-lā'krə, -lāk'rə)

  1. An image or representation.

  2. An unreal or vague semblance.


[Latin simulācrum (from simulāre, to simulate; see simulate) + -crum, n. suff.]
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Word Origin & History

simulacrum 
1599, from L. simulacrum "likeness, image, form, representation, portrait," dissimilated from *simulaclom, from simulare "to make like" (see simulation). The word was borrowed earlier as semulacre (c.1375), via O.Fr. simulacre.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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